John Edgar Wideman and Modernity

"In this book, Michel Feith positions John Edgar Wideman as a major critic of western modernity within African American literature. Feith presents Wideman's case against ghettoization, prisons, and the diasporic sense of history that emerges in his novels in unique and complex ways. Feith interprets these traits as at times a wholesale rejection of western modernity and at others a reorientation toward the minority viewpoint. Feith examines Wideman's novels consistently in light of The Cattle Killing, widely regarded as his magnum opus"--

שנה

2019

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Tennessee Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

269

ISBN

9781621904335

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata